In a flashback to the events leading up to the wedding, the Red Knight, a knight who claims to owe no loyalty to King Arthur, attacks Lynette's home in the absence of any male figureheads, holding the household hostage until Leonie consents to marry him and make him Lord.

Aided by Merlin (who had appeared to her once before, after she was raped), she receives Arthur's blessing, but he only sends one man with her – Gareth, whom she presumes to be a kitchen boy.

After Gaheris' departure, Lynette is worried about what will happen to her – abandoned by her husband, and forced to watch Gareth in Leonie's company.

Lynette acts so bravely and gracefully in the course of this work that she earns the respect of all those who travel with her (including Guinevere's unlucky admirer, Lancelot).

She later meets up again with the man who raped her as a child and beheads him; she is later haunted by his ghost, but eventually forgives him, freeing herself from the creatures which were released each time she laid a curse upon him.

She is also separated from her party in strange lands and kidnapped; she eventually finds her way out through a network of caves with the help of a young man named Lucius.

Lucius was imprisoned along with his mother, who subsequently died, but he met a sort of witch outside the caves who befriended him, and he is happy with his simple life.